A former AMP planner describes the company as a "dictatorship" and says he was pressured to sell in-house products, including to a client who would have been left thousands of dollars a year worse off.

For the tribe handling the $2.6 trillion in Australian superannuation savings, the financial year just ended has been an absolute ripper. How much longer it can continue, however, is increasingly being questioned, writes Ian Verrender.

The Chinese President arrives in Africa on a four-nation visit seeking deeper military and economic ties while his rival in a bitter trade war, the Trump administration, shows little interest in the world's second most populous continent.

Passengers are becoming used to flights being cancelled due to weather, or even volcanoes, but now a new trend is beginning to upset travel plans across the country. Airlines are cancelling flights, even entire routes, because there is nobody to fly the plane.

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It's well known that the Federal Government is no fan of industry superannuation funds. But business reporter Andrew Robertson asks why, given new figures show they continue to outperform their "retail" counterparts.

David Jones has tried most tricks in the retail book to reanimate its business. Its latest idea is a couple of famous anthropomorphised rodents. Can it work, Andrew Robertson asks, or is DJ's just taking the Mickey?

Australia's recent employment surge has failed to dent the unemployment rate or lift wages, and economists warn that jobs boom is ending and there is nothing more the Reserve Bank can do to give the economy a boost.